its was ok
it just wasnt fun enough to keep me interested. Good effort but I agree with some of the other reviews: either slow the fall rate of power ups or chuck them at the player
Reviews for "Arthropod Armada"
would be good. but
Controls stick on it. your guy can be forced down or up and yo have to cancel it but hitting the same direction. couldnt even play it. :(
meh
seems a little basic compaired to most other shooter games but i still liked it and was pretty well made fun + challenging = good game :)
well polished...
nicely polished game. I made it to wave 3, but unfortunately I have to take issue with the way the powerups just fall off the screen immediately. make them bounce around for a bit, or give them a bit of a velocity vector towards the player. it was suicide for me to attempt to pick up any powerups.
What a bunch of pussies.
You bunch of wusses, this game is not THAT tough. Don't get me wrong, it falls into that category of challenging, without being absolutely brutalizing. You wimps complaining about this game being too tough, go play Ikaruga or Darius Twin and then we'll talk about tough shooters.
Anywho, back on topic, I like this game a bunch. It managed to kill about a solid two hours of my time since I started playing it yesterday.
First and foremost, this game is beautiful. It's exaggerated environments and lovable looking characters make me feel bad when I shoot them in the face. The bullet effects are trippy and the explosions remind me of Kirby 64, which is a good thing. Nothing is very visually distracting, I mean the clouds sometimes get in the way of projectile visibility, but it's a nice added charm to it, not a negative. My only gripe would probably be diversity: most of the enemies look the same with only colored differences. This game needs more varieties of the insect kingdom.
The music, though simplistic, does its job well enough, surprising in a game designed around murdering bugs. It has a sort of PlayStation esque feel to it, which I'm sure makes no sense, but is a compliment. The voice acting is charming and the sound effects are nice, I love the fire attack sounds and the boss laser noises. Pew pew, burn pew burn!
Now down to the nitty gritty, the game play. The controls handle smoothly, your character has the right speed for the games mechanics. The difficulty, like I said before, is a challenging mix. Recovering from death on bosses is a bit of a pain and the enemies do take more shots, but it's not impossible to rebound from. People are so soft nowadays, if these "gamers" had grown up in the era of Battletoads and Ghosts and Goblins, they would of shit themselves. The power ups are pretty interesting. The fire weapon is ridiculously strong (almost OP) in comparison to the spread weapon (take THAT Contra), but that's OK, I think thats mandatory in every shooter. I would say the amount of powerups is a problem, but, in all honesty, it's not. Games don't need to be super deep if they are simplistic and addicting. What I do gripe on is how the powerups fall. Sometimes I would find that super crucial fire weapon falling on the far right of my screen, I would sprint to try and get it only to rush into an armada of angry insects on the warpath, ouch. On top of that, my only other complaint is diversity. One of the things I love about shooters is the creativity and difference enemies can bring to make it, especially bosses. This game has one cool looking fun boss, but it repeats. Again, it's understandable given the games scope, but it does want you wishing for a more diverse set of enemies.
Aside from this, there a few minor bugs that pop up. For some reason one time when using the max spread, all of the enemies disappeared on the screen. And then none came up for a couple seconds after.
This game is great, I'm going to keep playing it after I'm done writing this review. Anyone who says this game is too tough needs to be evaluated. It's a fun, charming little shooter, that got me addicted and one of the better I've played from this site. It's actually inspiring me to get out there and make some technologies of my own!
Good work gentlemen.
DAIRYDOG responds:
What a fantastic review!